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SMALLWOOD-EL v. COUGHLIN

No. 83 Civ. 2541(MP).

589 F.Supp. 692 (1984)

R. SMALLWOOD-EL, et al., Plaintiff, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN III, Individually and in his official capacity as Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services; Stephen Dalsheim, Individually and in his official capacity as Superintendent of Downstate Correctional Facility; and Hyland Sperbeck, Individually and in his official capacity as Deputy Superintendent For Security of Downstate Correctional Facility, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Smallwood-El, pro se.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York by Melvyn R. Leventhal, Howard Zwickel, Eugene Murphy, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, for defendants.

OPINION

POLLACK, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff R. Smallwood-El is a prisoner presently confined at New York State's Long Island Correctional Facility pursuant to a New York criminal conviction. He brought this pro se civil rights action, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to recover damages for alleged violations of several constitutional rights which he claims resulted from his segregated confinement to a Special Housing Unit ("SHU") at the New...

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